Hi everyone! I am alive, my life in Wellington just hasn’t been very exciting. I just kind of go to work, come home, drink some wine, and fall asleep on the couch, usually roughly in that order. Not that that’s a bad lifestyle, it just doesn’t produce many interesting blog posts.

This is what it looked like today in my back yard:

I took the day off work and sat out here for a while and stared at the tree, one of my favourite trees ever. It was extremely hot. I could hear gulls calling, couldn’t be all the way from the harbour, but still, I love that sound. I thought about some things and wrote most of this post.

This is a pretty cool house to live in. There’s a picture of my room here too if you’re interested. Mostly it’s that I’m a fan of the roomies, though, especially after the months among sweaty German backpackers.

Hamish is an engineer, mountain biker, and white water rafter. He has a tendency to fall asleep and get things drawn on him at parties, which would have been the picture of him I used but it’s hard to find one that doesn’t have some extremely vulgar work visible. Hamish is the Zelda of the group (where I’m the Zoe).

Da does something with teeth, I don’t know. She built her dad a chicken coop for his 50th birthday. That’s her friend Ally in the front, also cool. She was my buddy for the Tongariro Crossing.

Tom and Lily are probably the best-matched couple I know and almost definitely going to get married and be happy forever. There’s a nice vibe there between all of us. There’s also another housemate but I don’t know really know her well enough to non-awkwardly ask her for a photo, which tells you why I don’t think it matters if I don’t talk about her. It’s good to have a place for a while that comes to mind when I think “time to go home” at the end of the day.

Some people from real home came to visit last weekend though, so I guess I know who in the family really loves me. Jerry and Judi were in town with a bunch of doctors or something, and we had a good few hangouts. Ask them about it, it was cool. My outlook has changed a lot lately; I don’t much care at all about going to see volcanoes or whatever, but seeing those two made my year.

Work! I haven’t written anything about work yet. Trade Me is a pretty nice place to work. The slides are cool, there’s free coffee and tea, people are really chill 99% of the time. I learned some things about archaeology. Anyway I quit a couple weeks ago, so I’m leaving New Zealand pretty soon, and taking the slow pony home. Next post will probably be about the Cook Islands, cool hey!